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NVIDIA's Looking To Expand Its Linux Team

02-09-2011, 11:20 PM

Phoronix: NVIDIA's Looking To Expand Its Linux Team

In early December I shared that NVIDIA was looking to expand its Linux driver team after Andy Ritger mentioned they were looking to take on new engineers. It appears they're still looking to expand with an updated job posting yesterday seeking a Linux graphics software engineer...

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"Is there anything you would like to see in their driver short of a full open-source strategy?"

Uh, how about the xrandr 1.2 support they have been promising us for years now? Heck, any sort of working user-level GUI for configuring monitors would be nice. Their current tools do not even remember their settings between sessions, so they are essentially useless without editing your xorg.conf file, which requires root privileges and most Linux distros nowadays don't even use xorg.conf.

How about optimus support? Many, if not most, upcoming laptops ship with graphics cards that cannot be used under Linux because they rely on optimus, while Nvidia has said they have no plans to support optimus under Linux.

How about fixing their problems with pixmaps? Nvidia's proprietary driver is the only one that has problems with software creating a lot of pixmaps.

How about kernel mode setting? Or anything else needed to get wayland working. On the software side a lot of work is going into getting ready for it, but Nvidia seems to be totally ignoring it.

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Heck, any sort of working user-level GUI for configuring monitors would be nice. Their current tools do not even remember their settings between sessions, so they are essentially useless without editing your xorg.conf file, which requires root privileges and most Linux distros nowadays don't even use xorg.conf.

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I wonder if any of the ATI guys that were let go in recent years are contractually able to apply?

Exactly the same thing I'm wondering There are many talented, unpaid and deserves-to-be-paid developers working on the opensource ati linux drivers too. If amd doesn't employ them (and thats because they don't have interest in better linux drivers) nvidia should.

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nvidia:"join the team of the open-source haters we pay 6$6$6$ dollars per Day you only need to sign a contract with the Devil and your soul goes to hell after you are death"

You know, if it to be AMD to announce this job offer (ie: we're looking for guys to develop binary blobs), Q wouldn't make fantastic statements like this. It would all be justified for him.

But it is not. AMD gives way to linux developers while nvidia employs them and you know why? They are successful in linux workstations, handheld linux devices, scientific visualization etc. and amd is not.